November - 2020

The Philosophy of Game Design: Phenomenology.

A little while ago (actually longer ago than I intended to leave it before doing a follow-up blog) I wrote a bit about some of the...

SSO: Rage of Montalbano Kickstarter Post-Partum

We’ve recently (as in at the time of writing this within 48 hours) successfully funded our third Kickstarter, this time for SSO: Rage of...

The 5 most (biographically) influential games ever!

I’m not generally a fan of list articles, and even less of ones about what games are “fact” more influential than others. Certainly, if...

The Kickstarter brief: Design

I recently wrote a blog about games with roll and move mechanics on Kickstarter which seemed to garner two general schools of response,...

Reviews, Previews, Kickstarter and Independent Designers

I want to make this post because I feel there is a gap between the perception and the reality of the world of reviewers and previewers in...

Collecting and Completion, a Collecting the SDJs special

Those of you who have been following this blog closely will know that just to bedevil myself I’ve chosen to collect and review all the...